Furniture-support.



Patented Oct. 16, 1917.

1. T- SPEARS.

FURNITURE SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED JAN-31.1914.

wwnmo wmw JOSEPH THEODORE srnens, or non'rrrnneusrn, sourri CAROLI A.

FURNITURE-SUPPORT.

1,243,116 v I Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Get; 16 1917'.

Application filed January 31, 1914. Serial No. 815,796. I

To all whom it may concern: cordance with my invention and comprising Beit known that I, Josnrn THEODORE the elongated .side members Q'dispoSedin SPEARS, a citizen of the United States, reparallelism and inpredetermined spaced residing at North Augusta, in the county of lationand having their extremities tied or Aiken and State of South Carolina,have united by the cross members .38. At preinvented certain new d s f lImprovedetermined points intermediate their length, ments inFurniture-Supports, of which the the members 2 are provided with theopenfollowing is a specification, reference being g H in each 015 h c isad p ed o h d t th accompanying drawings" mounted a small wheel orcaster 5 whereby This invention relates to certain improveill be Seenthat 1 upp m y be ments in furniture supports and has 'reladrawn aoroSSt OI her supporting tion more particularly to a device of this surfacewithconvenience and facility. The general character adapted to beemployed mem r 2. ar 'zalso provided, at predeteri connection with f rit re adapt d to be mined points intermediate their length, withdisposed substantially in rows and particuthe openings 6 through whichsuitable anlarly school desks or seats; and the object horing members,as indicated at 7, may be of the invention is to provide a device ofpassed for maintaining the school desks or this general character havingnovel and imseats D in operative position thereupon. proved meanswhereby the desks or seats As is thought to be obvious, it will be maybe readily and conveniently displaced, readlly perceived that normallythe support should any occasion therefor arise. and the desks or seatsthereon are adapted Th i ti i t i th d tails of to be maintained in'asubstantial permanent construction and in the combination and locationand in order that the support may arrangement f th Several Parts f y ibe held against accidental displacement, I proved device whereby certainimportant adfind 1t of advantage to produce in the convantages are tt id d th d i i e heating or tie members 3 suitable openings dered simpler,less expensive and otherwise hr gh Win h anchoring means as indimoreconvenient and advantageous for use, cated at 9, may be passed to soengage the all as will be hereinafter more fully set forth. floor orsupporting surface as to maint i r f th i vention will the samelmmovable. As herein set forth,

The novel featu be carefully defined in the appended l i the fasteningmeans 9 are herein shown as I d r th t my i ti may b the threadedmembers whereby the same may be better understood, I will now proceed todetached from the floor or supporting surd ib th same ith reference t tha face with convenience and facility when it companying d wi wh r i isdesired to displace the support. Figure 1 i a fragmentary i i t Inpractice, I find it of advantage to emplan of supports constructed inaccordance p oy a plurality of supports, each of which with my inventionin operative position, the ng f predetermmed dimensions and desks orseats carried thereby being omitted; when Su h supports are assembled inopera- Fig, 2 i a d t il ti l vi w tak two posltion, I find it also ofparticular adthrough an end bar of a support, illustratvantage toprovide means whereby they ing a means whereby the same may be anmay beinterlocked and, as disclosed in the chored in position; accompanyingdrawings, I set forth a means Fig. 3 is a fragmentary longitudinalsecwhereby such interlocking engagement is tional view taken through oneof the side substantially automatic. As herein embars, illustrating themeans whereby the bodied, such means includes a plurality of desks orseats may be secured thereto; expansible spring latches 10 projectingfrom Fig. A is an enlarged fragmentary view one end of each of thelongitudinal side partly in elevation and partly in section bars of theframe of a support and adapted illustrating the means whereby adjacentsupto be accommodated within suitable recesses ports may beautomatically interlocked; and or cavities produced in the adjacent endof Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. i but in each of the longitudinalside bars of the side elevation. frame of the succeeding support. It isto As disclosed in the accompanying drawbe observed that the outer orfree ends of ings, 1 denotesa support constructed in acthe arms 10 areinturned in order to facilim, it

L nd! L'port"constructed in accordance with an-embOdiment of myinvention isof an extremely simple and comparatively inexpensive -natureand is particularly well adapted for use by reasorrof'the convenienceand facility with which the same maybe transported from one locality toanother over i'ts s'upporting surface when thebc'ca'sion mayso requireand it will also beobvious? that' iny "invention is susceptible ofsoniechange and f'if o'dl ficatlon "without mater1al departure "from theprinciples and "spirit thereof "and "fontliis re'ason I do notwishto beunderstood a limiting myself to {the'p're'cise 'a-rrangement formationof the "several b ars ofthe frame having a socket'formed in one end, and

from the opposite adapted to enter frame, the sockets spring latchesprojecting 1 the sockets of *a second havlng their longitudinal end ofthe side bar and walls flared inwardly and a outwardly and each pfthespring catches comprising spaced spring 'ai'ms having their freeextremities flai'ed j outwardly; the free extremities of the "arms beingintu'rned to facilitate the inser- Etionof"the arms with the 'coa ctingsocket.

In testimo11y=whereof I hereunto aflix my signature *in 'the presenceoftwo 'witriesses.

- UosnPHTHEonoRj SPEARS. f Witnesses: i i

Mrs. BUTIJER, fCILA'nAA-NnERsoN.

"'Gopis '61 t'his patent ma be obtained for rive cents achybynaddressingthe Commissioner 01" Patents,

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